Big Salmon Lake i think god is moving it's tongue,

Too small— too scrawny!— he called her!

Needle's eyes blazed in an indignant wildfire. She desperately wanted to argue, but the words escaped her. A chord of fear was struck within her, when he suggested that she might get eaten without her protector.

This made her angriest of all.

Nobody's eating me, she muttered under her breath. She still thought she would grow, unaware that she had already reached her adult height. So many others were so much larger than her— surely she would be larger, too.

And when she got big, she would eat him. The cogs of revenge already churning in her childish head.

Her voice raised then, shouting after him as he departed. That's right, pendejo, run away. When I'm your size, we'll see who's eating who!